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Important Dates

This flyer of events has been updated to include Finals Testing at the end of the semester and the Graduation Rehearsal date has changed to May 23rd.

College Ready

By law, students must complete the financial aid application requirement for graduation. Seniors must take one of the following actions:

  • Complete and submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
  • Complete and submit the Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA)
  • Submit a signed opt-out form

The 2-page document below explains the financial aid application graduation requirement...or visit the site at the button link below to access the hyperlinks within the document:

Explanation of Financial Aid Application Graduation Requirement

12th Graders:

  • Seniors need to be sure that they have taken care of all their credit hours if they have been excessively absent (excused & unexcused) more than 9 days per semester. Last day to make-up hours is Saturday, May 11th. Otherwise, seniors may continue to attend mornings at 7:25 am Mon. - Fri. or evenings from 3:50 pm - 4:20 pm in the ISS room.
  • Seniors need to be sure that all their dues/fees are paid before graduation.
  • It is important to know that there can be no writings, decorations or emblems on any graduation items worn, includes cap, gown and stoles.
  • More information about graduation will be forthcoming.

Shout Outs

JANUARY 2024

Chemistry students studying electron dot structures and chemical bonds.
Our very own at The Extra Special Livestock Show !
Advanced Floral Design students worked their Pirate magic at the 2023 Kennedy Floral Design competition and did a great job with Braxley Brezina winning 2nd place!
Mrs. Stubblefield's UIL Debate team consisting of Maddie Perez and Keira Rodriguez (left to right) competed very well at the State level at the UIL Congress State in Austin.
Cheer Tryouts mandatory parent meeting to review important information and a passing of the leadership coaching role to Mrs. Morgan. Thank you Ms. Sample for your dedication and commitment to leading SHS cheer! And thank you Mrs. Morgan for taking the leadership role!
Our athletes and coaches enjoyed the motivational speech from Chip Baker--author of The Success Chronicles...where success stories are shared for positive inspiration and motivation.
School Board Appreciation! We extend our heartfelt thanks to all our dedicated school board members! Your tireless efforts and commitment to enhancing Sinton ISD education positively impacts countless Pirate lives. We truly appreciate your unwavering dedication to our schools and community. Thank you for all that you do!
Our Sinton ISD January Pirate Award was awarded to Stephanie Hajducek, founder of "This One's for the Gals" with the mission to help girls in grades K-12 with career exploration and workforce development in the construction, energy and manufacturing industries. Congratulations, Stephanie!
Lady Pirates Basketball
Our 3rd Annual Faculty vs Softball Slowpitch Softball Game! We had a blast! And, of course, staff won...by a land slide!
Texas A&M University Kingsville was in the Pirates' house!
The anticipation! Continued progress in our new SHS building is looking great!
At Sinton High School...staff is family!

FEBRUARY 2024

Best practices utilized in our Math classes with student collaboration, C3B4Me, agendas and learner objectives posted and reviewed, and displays of student products! Math Rocks!
Science classes also utilize best practices with innovative spacing as they comfortably work on sentence stems and scenarios through small group, student collaboration.
Hands-on learning and problem solving as students work as a team to build various gears and make measurements in their PLTW Engineering classes.
A celebration of FFA Week! The students enjoyed cooking and serving up some great pancakes and breakfast for staff as we celebrated FFA Week. Staff also decorated classroom doors for the FFA Door Contest.
Our Debate team swept top spots for the fifth year in a row at the UIL District CX Debate earning a spot at State in March. Junior's Madilynn Perez and Keira Rodriguez went undefeated and took 1st Place! Junior Canden Serrano and senior Benjamin Herrera took 2nd Place! These winnings give Sinton the opportunity to compete at 4A State the last weekend of Spring Break. We also have over 40 points in our quest to win Speech Team at UIL District.
Medical assistant senior students ended their hard work with oral presentations of health disorders. Phlebotomy juniors ended their hard work completing capillary sticks in preparation for venipuncture.
Sophomores and Juniors getting ready to make choices in taking part in health science courses that are now part of our P-TECH Program! (Nursing programs of CMA, PCT, EKG, & Phlebotomy)
Health Science students "Neuron-ing" their way to Great Things!
The regional PTECH schools met in our library this month as an initial meeting to share ideas and collaborate. We learned some strategies that will help us to implement for next year that will help provide more structure and positive gains in incentivizing our students to work towards at least 1 CCMR point. Juniors and Seniors next year will need to earn or be working on earning a CCMR point before they are awarded with an off-period and/or office aide period.
Many of our seniors had the opportunity to attend the Sinton Community Career Expo at the Civic Center on Feb. 29th.
Our future incoming freshmen students were toured around campus visiting elective classes to help them decide the program of study they will take for their 4 year career at SHS. They visited health science classes, theatre arts, engineering classes, choir, forensic science, floral design, and Ag classes.
Our Lady Pirates had an awesome season! Congratulations, ladies!
Signing day for Colby Hesseltine. Congratulations, Colby! Colby will continue his education and athletic career collegiately at Texas A & M Kingsville to play football.
Our new SHS building...still progressing as we map out classes for all staff and programs.
The amazing Sinton Pirate Team attending a CTE conference at ESC2 and having a little fun!
OUR VISION

Reminders & info.:

  • Please call SHS for any COVID related issues.
  • Please continue to call the campus when your child will be absent.
  • Every student should take the TSI college entrance exam (Texas Success Initiative). It is an exam used for college placement that measures college readiness in reading, writing, and math with testing 20-25 items per section. Encourage your child to take this exam even if they decide not to attend college.
SHS's Game Plan of NO ONE GOES BACKWARDS: OUR Roadmap to TEA Campus Rating of an "A"

Enrollments & Attendance

ENROLLMENT for January---Total of 594---Grade 9- 163 / Grade 10- 145 / Grade 11- 135 / Grade 12-151

ENROLLMENT for February---Total of 596---Grade 9- 162 / Grade 10- 151 / Grade 11- 133 / Grade 12-150

Attendance for January --- Grade 9 - 91.7% / Grade 10 - 91.7% / Grade 11 - 92.7% / Grade 12 - 93.7% / OVERALL ATTENDANCE --- 92.4%

Attendance for February --- Grade 9 - 91.5% / Grade 10 - 92.3% / Grade 11 - 93.2% / Grade 12 - 91.9% / OVERALL ATTENDANCE --- 92.2%

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